zuckerberg attended a high-profile dinner with president obama and hosted town halls for president obama at facebook. zuckerberg donated $100 million to newark public schools which announced with governor christie and new york mayor cory booker. >> we're starting a $100 million grant so the mayor and governor can have flexibility to implement new programs in newark and turn newark into a symbol of educationalle examinence for the whole nation. >> zuckerberg is stepping up his educated flan pi. this past december he and his wife donated 18 million facebook shares to the silicon valley community foundation. he's contributed $10,000 to facebook's political action committee which donated $267,000 to both democratic and republican candidates over the past two years but today's event does face some opposition. the democratic governor's association posted a petition earlier this week to pressure zuckerberg to cancel his fund-raiser. it has pulled the petition down. it's no longer up online. an organization called credo action is planning a protest ahead of the event this evening. the event toni